By Friday 9/16: Finish all homework from previous two weeks for which you want credit.
By class on M 9/19:
Twitter
Have successfully set up Tweetdeck and be following all members of the class (on Twitter); have #eng506 as a saved search on your desktop Tweetdeck; also be following at least 20 people in the field of ELA, education, or edtech by class. Periodically catch up on your "all friends" feed on Tweetdeck and retweet tweets of that interest you to #eng506.
REPLY (please) to your classmates' tweets!
Blog
Have posted at least two additional blog postson things English, education and/or technology related (in addition to the one posted last week). Feel free to blog about your experiences, thoughts and feelings about entering this new Web 2.0, read/write world; I encourage it (just remember your audience, see below).
Include in each of these posts a) images and b) links.
If you want to grab an image from your computer,use this WONDERFUL resource that explains screencaptures for Macs, PCs, whatever!
If you want to grab images from the web, visit Creative Commons to make sure that you are using images legally. View this webcast that I made here about how to use CC to find images. See this page about how to attribute sources with CC licenses.
Think about your audience as other preservice teachers, teachers of English or some variation thereof. Write for them (not for me or for classmates). As you write to them, think about what your objective is in the post: To share insights? Share useful info? Add your perspective on a recent issue of mutual interest by commenting on a recent post and present it to your "constituents" or followers? Whatever your purpose may be, write each post with it squarely in mind.
Write at least one other postthat is about something else you are interested in/know about but that is not "English, education and/or technology related." Keep it fit for your professional audience, too. Think about your audience and purpose here, too, but be careful to keep the tone and content appropriate for all audiences.
Include images and links for this post, too.
Use "tags" (do a google search and check Solomon and Schrum, too) to differentiate these posts (for example, I might tag one post on Evernote's shortcomings with "social bookmarking" and "Evernote," while I'd tag my post on garage-saling with "garage sales" and "CNY").
Tweet out to your followers (and #eng506) when you have posted your new blog posts.
Aggregate feeds
Set up an iGoogle account, if you don't already have one.
Reserve the main page for your personal stuff. Here's a snapshot of mine.
Watch this screencast about how to aggregate other classmembers' feeds onto another page of your "reader" and add create such a page in your iGoogle aggregator.
Share on Diigo
Sign up for Diigo(an alternative to Evernote, which was a bust for group sharing...who knew?).
Sign up for our group (ENG_506) and re-share the 5 links from last week and add five more you discovered this week. They can be things you discover from Twitter. Wherever you find them, good Twitter (and internet sharing) ettiquette is to acknowledge the source (a link or "via cynthia sarver" or "via willrich45") is sufficient. Include such attributions in your annotations of the link on Diigo.
Don't forget also to annotate your post/shared link to explain a bit about it for us/our library. This group is private and closed to us only.
By class on M 9/19:
Twitter
Blog
Aggregate feeds
Share on Diigo
Read